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@niet mes @met @una SAMUEL ORUNDLETT AND RULOE DODGE, OF PORTLAND, MAINE, ASSIGN- ORS TO THEMSELVES AND JOHN L. MESERVE, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 63,181, dated llfarch 126, 1867.

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B e it known that we, SAMUEL C. RuNDLnrr and RULOF Denen, both ot' Portland, in the county of Cumberland, and Stat-e of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improved Scrubbing-Brush; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactI description thereof, which will enable others to makeiand use our invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top plan of a brush embodying our improvements.

Figure 2, a side elevation of the same.

Our invention has relation to those kinds of brushes which are employed in brushing and cleansing {loors and other parts of' the wood-Work, walls, and ceilings of dwellings a'nd houses. In the manner of construction of these articles at present,`the brush-head has a hole into which the handle is inserted and there rigidly held. This occasions inconvenience in the manipulation of the brush, and if the handle Were in some manner arranged to turn with a socket'or joint, it would, particularly in the case of long-handled brushes, greatly improve their usefulness and convenience. This is the subject of one of o'ur improvements." The.wooden portions .of brushes of this general description, particularly whenin the-hands of a careless user, and when employed in cleansing and sweeping iioors and other parts of rooms, bytheir knocking and striking against the mop-boards and other parts of the wood-work,Y deface and bruise the same, leaving it oftentimes marred and filled with dents, from this striking of the wooden or top part of the brush. A second obj-ect ofour invention is to provide against this. To meet the first-named demand of convenience We arrange the handle with a sock-et or jointwhich allows the handle to swing either from one side to the other of the brush-top, or to swing quite around Iin a circle." The devices by which this is effected we, do not claim `as new, only their application to and combination with a brush and its handle. To avoid the results of the use of the common brush, which are, in the second place, noticed above, we surround the edges of the brush-top or wooden portion with a band of rubber or other soft material, so vthat when the user strikes the brush against the wood-work of a room, no injury is caused thereto in consequence of the edge of the brush being thus defended or faced.

In the accompanying drawings, A shows a brush which can be used for the various purposes of cleaning,

washing, sweeping, die., in houses, and is intended to illustrate the description of brush ordinarily employedlfor these purposes. Into the top of the wooden portion is set the projection b, which, with the handle c, is formed into a socket or joint for the purposes hereinbefore indicated. shows abn-nd of rubber, or other useful material for the purpose, surrounding the edges ofthe wooden portion of the brush, as a means of preventing the edges of the said woodcnpart from injuring wood-work in rooms and buildings Where the brush may be used. The band may be an endless one, or may be secured at its two ends. We do not claim any method of securing the same, but propose to employ any of the ordinary methods. We are aware of Letters Patent grantcdlto George Carver, August 1, 1844,1f`or a scrubbing-brush and block, in which a block and socketare set into a box, and all secured together by a wire passing through box, block, and socket, the wire forming the hinge, but do not claim such a device. In our invention there issimplyI ajoint in the handle at a short distance from the Wooden portion of the brush, said handle being at the lower end rigidly attached tothe brush, (see b.)- This jointis only intended, in our invention, to be applied to the Wooden portion'- of a single-brush, and is not removable therefrom. Neither do we claim a removable back or brush in combination with a head and screw-bolts, asset forth in the application of B.- Figer, July 3, 1866. Our invention consists in`an arrangement for preventing the wood-work of houses and rooms from being defaced'by the-edges of the wood of the brush, asset forth, and an arrangement to render the brush more easily used, to avoid the necessity of stooping, 85o., when using the same.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

- A scrubbing-brush having the arrangement of the jointed handle c and rubber bandf, as and for the'purposes set forth.

SAMUEL c. RUNDLETT, RULoF Dones.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM HENRY CLIFFORD, HENRY C. HOUSTON. 

